不是笑话一则——教育现状

李兆良

2019.1.15

2018年8月，在二十天内，我在中国从北到南走访了七座城市（北京，郑州，洛阳，杭州，南京，深圳，香港），演讲了十场关于用科学推理分析地图，更正世界史，对象的教育程度基本是中学生以上。

事后，一位老师给我发了个微信，告诉我他学生的反应。

“听完李老师的演讲，你们觉得《坤舆万国全图》是谁绘制的？”

“明代中国人。”

“郑和下西洋，最远到了什么地方？”

“东非洲。”

“谁发现美洲新大陆？”

“哥伦布。”

老泪与孤魂齐飞，血管共舌头两塞。—— 红脖子，字眼瞪，号竖髮居士，语出《白讲录》（年代不详，无考）。

顺便分享几段爱因斯坦的语录：

• Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. 

• Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

• Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
  

• Two things are infinite: the universe and the human stupidity.

• What is right is not always popular, and what is popular is not always right.

• The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it."